作家唯一的责任就是对他的艺术负责。如果他是优秀的作家，他会完全无情。他有一个梦想。这让他非常痛苦，他必须摆脱它。在此之前，他无法安宁。

The ideal of behaviorism is to eliminate coercion: to apply controls by changing the environment in such a way as to reinforce the kind of behavior that benefits everyone.

可持续性不是一种选择，而是我们对后代的责任。

Concerning the gods, I cannot know either that they exist or that they do not exist, nor what form they might have, for there is much to prevent one's knowing: the obscurity of the subject and the shortness of man's life.

Scars have the strange power to remind us that our past is real.

The quality of a country's institutions is the most important determinant of its success.

预言是人类唯一一项无法由重复练习而进步的技术。

不要借钱给你的朋友，除非你愿意把借出去的钱当成礼物。